(4th Year Poetry) Virginia Thomas is a Southern Indiana native and received her degree in biochemistry from Indiana University in 2009. She has worked as a bakery minion, a mad laboratory technician, an ice creamery operator, and a Direct Support Professional. In her non-writing free time, she enjoys adventuring, making art, and volunteering with Middle Way House – Bloomington’s domestic violence shelter. Virginia is also fond of the texture of moss in spring, the smell of snow, and the way rabbits lounge in the grass when they think no one is looking.